The tanagers are one of the most beautiful groups of birds in the world. When you head to Latin America, various species of tanagers are high on every birder’s wish list. A lot of them are both ...

Birds with red coloration get birders and non-birders alike excited. Most birds are rather drab, so orioles, warblers, and any bird with splotches of bright colors (orange or yellow or red or even ...

Thankfully, the trees are fully leafed out. My neighbors probably would have started to wonder about me. Of course, that process likely started long ago. I found myself standing on my roof, camera in ...

The ring-necked pheasant, an introduced species that has declined from its peak population in Pennsylvania in the 1970s to only a couple heavily managed pockets today, is one of the few birds that ...

Now arriving in Georgia from winter grounds as far south as Peru is the scarlet tanager, whose gleaming red breeding plumage (in the male) is one of the brightest in the bird world. The stunning bird ...

What makes a blue jay blue or a cardinal red? Color, a crucial element in nature, is most evident in the amazing hue and pattern variations in more than 10,000 bird species around the world. How birds ...